Paul Carlos 500-Hour YAI Yoga Teacher is a mind-body specialist, educator and lecturer on the CISN module A Mind-Body Perspective In Sport. He brings more than 40 years of sustained study, practice and teaching in mind-body disciplines, with particular expertise in yoga, Tai Ji, Qi Gong and meditation, that relate directly to human performance.
His formal studies began at the B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga school and the International Tai Ji Society, and has subsequently encompassed extensive study with teachers across yoga, Tai Ji, Qi Gong, classical guitar and sacred music.
Paul is the founder of Sacred Spiral Yoga and Tai Chi, an internationally accredited school with Yoga Alliance International, where he has developed and delivered an accredited teacher-training programme. His teaching experience spans individual and group instruction, retreats, workshops and professional teacher education.
His work combines long-term practical experience with an interdisciplinary understanding of mind-body practice, making him particularly well placed to examine the role of these approaches in health, sport and performance.
Paul currently teaches internationally through Insight Timer, one of the world’s largest meditation and mindfulness platforms, and lives and works at Emoyeni Buddhist Retreat in South Africa, where he continues his teaching, study and practice..